It is a great thing to celebrate our country's independence today.
All of us in Afrikalogy say:
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE TO OUR DEAR COUNTRY NIGERIA AND OUR DEAREST NIGERIANS
The news about the pioneer Nigerian Police Catholic chaplain is not new again even though some people have not really heard about it in detail. The Old Catholic and Apostolic church had been in existence even before the then Rev Fr. Fagbohun of Ekiti Catholic diocese joined the church which the Catholic Diocese of Ekiti really went against. He states that The formal separation occurred over the issue of Papal’s universal authority. It started in The Netherlands in 1724, creating the first Old Catholic Church. Fr. Fagbohun joined the religion in the year 2014 when he was being made the first Bishop in Nigeria and who in turn had been ordaining young ones so as to add to the number of the clergy in the country. It is observed that most of the people ordained are those who had been trained in the Roman Catholic Seminaries, who by chance could not make it to the Roman Catholic priesthood. The aim of the Old Catholic and Apostolic Church is totally against the aim of the Rom...
Today, we will take a look at an outstanding Nigerian. An excellent doctor. The first black neurosurgeon to be trained in the United States. A patriot who sacrificed all for his nation. But he has largely remained in obscurity (especially to those outside the medical community). No thanks to a nation where governments would rather honour a thief, praise a criminal to high heavens and adorn a cabal with medals than celebrate the real heroes. HIS EARLY DAYS -On the 29th of June 1927, in the Adubieye Compound of a tiny settlement known as Awe, Afijio Local Government in the then Oyo Province of Western Nigeria, the cries of a chubby baby boy resonated through the thatched roofs of time-tested huts, bouncing against the soft palm fronds. A star was born. From a hamlet in Yorubaland of West Africa, he would go on to become the first professor of neurosurgery in Nigeria, the world’s most populous black nation. He was named EMMANUEL OLATUNDE OLANREWAJU ALABA the son of ODEKU. -His ...
Ìbàdàn (Ìlú Ẹ ̀ bá-Ọ ̀ dàn) aka Ile Oluyole, Ilu Ogunmola Meaning: "Between the forest and plains" Ibadan - Running splash of gold and rust flung among seven hills, like broken china in the sun - J.P Clark. Location of Ibadan in Nigeria Ibadan, surrounded by seven hills, is located in south-western Nigeria. It is the capital of Oyo State, and is reputed to be the third largest indigenous city in Nigeria after Kano and Lagos respectively. It is populated dominantly by the Yorubas. It was founded in the 18th Century. According to local historians, before the existence of Ibadan, Oyo kingdom, a then very powerful kingdom governed a lion share of Yorubaland. Hence, Ibadan was born when, Lagelu, the Jagun (Chief of War) of the Oyo empire left the Oyo Kingdom with some of his best warriors from Oyo town, Ogbomoso and Ilesa, to found their military outpost to prevent attack on Oyo kingdom from surrounding towns such as Ijebu, Egba and Ado warriors and thei...
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